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Bottom photoproduction measured using decays into muons in dijet events in ep collisions at s = 318 GeV
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Bottom photoproduction measured using decays into muons in dijet events in ep collisions at s = 318 GeV

ZEUS Collaboration and J. Repond
Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, Vol.70(1), 012008
07/2004
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.70.012008
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ex/0312057View
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Abstract

The photoproduction of bottom quarks in events with two jets and a muon has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 110 pbāˆ’1. The fraction of jets containing b quarks was extracted from the transverse momentum distribution of the muon relative to the closest jet. Differential cross sections for bottom production as a function of the transverse momentum and pseudorapidity of the muon, of the associated jet and of š‘„jets š›¾, the fraction of the photon’s momentum participating in the hard process, are compared with MC models and QCD predictions made at next-to-leading order. The latter give a good description of the data.

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